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rare
1. adj. Very uncommon; scarce.
Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.
2. adj. (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
3. adj. (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
4. v. (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
5. v. (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.
6. adj. (obsolete) early
beating
1. n. The action by which someone or something is beaten.
the beating of a drum
secret beatings of prisoners
2. n. A heavy defeat or setback.
3. n. The pulsation of the heart.
4. v. present participle of beat
beat
1. n. A stroke; a blow.
2. n. A pulsation or throb.
a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse
3. n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
4. n. A rhythm.
5. n. (music) specifically The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
6. n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
7. n. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
8. n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
to walk the beat
9. n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
10. n. In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
11. n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
12. n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
the beat of him
13. n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
14. n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
a dead beat
15. n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
16. n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
17. n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
18. v. To hit; strike
As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
19. v. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
20. v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
21. v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
22. v. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
23. v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
24. v. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
25. v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
26. v. (transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
27. v. To indicate by beating or drumming.
to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
28. v. To tread, as a path.
29. v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
30. v. To be in agitation or doubt.
31. v. To make a sound when struck.
The drums beat.
32. v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
33. v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
34. v. To arrive at a place before someone.
He beat me there.
The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.
35. v. (transitive, US, slang) to masturbate.
This was the second time he beat off today.
36. v. (intransitive, UK, slang) to have sexual intercourse.
Bruv, She came in just as we started to beat.
37. adj. (US slang) exhausted
After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
38. adj. dilapidated, beat up
Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
39. adj. (gay slang) fabulous
Her makeup was beat!
40. adj. (slang) boring
41. adj. (slang) ugly
42. n. A beatnik.
dashing
1. adj. Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
2. adj. Chic, fashionable.
All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.
3. v. present participle of dash
4. n. The action of the verb to dash.
dash
1. n. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
2. n. (colloquial) Also used to refer to a hyphen or minus sign.
3. n. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
4. n. A short run, flight.
When the feds came they did the dash.
5. n. Violent strike, whack
6. n. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
Add a dash of vinegar
7. n. Vigor.
Aren't we full of dash this morning?
8. n. A dashboard.
9. n. (Nigeria, and Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift
10. n. (dated, euphemistic) (A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.))
11. v. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
He dashed across the field.
12. v. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
I have to dash now. See you soon.
13. v. To destroy by striking (against).
He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
14. v. To throw violently.
The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
15. v. To sprinkle; to splatter.
16. v. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
17. v. To dishearten; to sadden.
Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
18. v. To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework
19. v. To draw quickly; jot.
20. v. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there.
to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture
21. interj. (euphemistic) Damn!
As
1. n. plural of A
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
You’re not as tall as I am.
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
The kidnappers released him as agreed.
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
Do as I say!
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
As you wish, my lord!
6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
As I came in, she flew.
7. conj. At the same time that; while.
He sleeps as the rain falls.
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
As it’s too late, I quit.
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
It's not so complicated as I expected.
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
You are not as tall as me.
They're big as houses.
17. prep. In the role of.
What is your opinion as a parent?
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
20. n. plural of a
waves
1. n. plural of wave
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of wave
wave
1. v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
The flag waved in the gentle breeze.
2. v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
3. v. (transitive, metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
I waved goodbye from across the room.
4. v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
5. v. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
6. v. To produce waves to the hair.
7. v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
Jones waves at strike one.
8. v. To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
The starter waved the flag to begin the race.
9. v. (transitive, metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
10. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
11. v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
12. n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
13. n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
14. n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
Her hair had a nice wave to it.
sine wave
15. n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
16. n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
17. n. (usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.

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